Ridley Scott is one of our greatest directors, and with the success of Gladiator II, he is still going strong well into his 80s. Scott has created countless masterpieces, but for many, it's 1979's ...

Ellen Ripley is the warrant officer assigned to the USCSS Nostromo who encounters a hostile alien, the Xenomorph, when its embryo is brought back onto the ship. She's the protagonist of four Alien ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

Director Ridley Scott originally had quite a different outcome for his "Alien" protagonist Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver). The 1979 sci-fi classic is heralded not only as one of the best ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Alien: Earth season 1, episode 5.Even though the human-synthetic hybrid Wendy seems like Alien: Earth's version of Ellen Ripley, it's actually a much more ...